Country Singer Gavin Adcock Cleared of Reckless Driving Charge After Arrest

Country singer Gavin Adcock has wrapped up the saga of his May arrest with a legal victory.

Three months after he was arrested and charged with reckless driving and violating open container laws, Adcock had the charges dropped and/or dismissed by prosecutors during a hearing in Tennessee on Monday, Aug. 18, according to court records viewed by PEOPLE.

The singer, 26, pleaded guilty to speeding.

“All I know is it always works out,” he captioned an Instagram post on Aug. 18 that featured him posing outside of the Wilson County Criminal Justice Center.

Adcock was taken into custody by the Tennessee Highway Patrol in Wilson County in May, and charged with reckless driving and having an open container of alcohol in his vehicle. Court records show he posted a $1,000 bond, and was released about five hours later.

The singer addressed his arrest for the first time days later by sharing a photo of his mug shot to Instagram.

“I bought my dream car.. a 1973 Dodge Challenger. Over the past few months I’ve been putting money into it, getting it running as good as new, and decided I wanted to take it for a joy ride,” he captioned his post. “The car ran great. I got pulled over and arrested for reckless driving going 103 in Wilson County, TN.”

He later made light of the situation, releasing a song called “Morning Bail” and posting his mugshot to Instagram again on June 1 with the caption, “If I woulda known it was gonna end up like this I woulda went faster.”

Adcock, who released his third album Own Worst Enemy on Aug. 15, revealed in 2023 in a post on X that he was once arrested for having a suspended license, and “went to jail… sat in there for 10 hours and made friends with my cell mates.”

The singer, who is kicking off a new tour on Thursday, Aug. 21, has made headlines in recent days for negative comments about both country star Zach Bryan and Beyoncé, who earlier this year won Album of the Year at the Grammys for her country record Cowboy Carter. Last month, her accompanying tour became the highest-grossing country tour in history.

After Adcock criticized Cowboy Carter as not being “country,” singer-songwriter Charley Crockett seemingly weighed in, writing in an Aug. 19 Instagram post that “25 years of bro country” was actually the root of the issue.

“The machine points to a Black woman who’s making a statement about marginalized people being removed from the conversation altogether, and somehow we all act like the entire pop industry didn’t just ambush roots music,” he wrote. “These ‘country boys’ been singing over trap beats for years. So what’s different now? Authenticity… I don’t need to put down a Black woman to advance my music. That’s just embarrassing to the idea of America and I got no respect for it.”

Adcock later responded on X, criticizing Crockett’s cover of the Tanya Tucker single “The Jamestown Ferry” while encouraging him to put out “quality original music” and invoking Hank Wiliams: “Hank sr. called and asked about the cosplay cowboy.”

Crockett released his latest album, Dollar a Day, on Aug. 8.